...66. CM Sunday. [*]" Jl Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy. 1 rjlHERE is a land of pure delight, -I- Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. o 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-with'ring flow'rs : e Death like a narrow sea, divides...

...attended the Infant-school, and she brought them to Willy's bedside, and they all began to sing : ' There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never with'ring flowers. Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours,* &c. " It...

...from Western shore towards the New Forest that he was inspired to write later the familiar words : "There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood...

...powerful idiosyncrasy of that Protestant claim to literal vision which rejoiced in the New Jerusalem: There is a land of pure Delight, Where Saints immortal...banish Pain. There everlasting Spring abides, And never-withering Flowers; Death like a narrow Sea divides This Heav'nly Land from ours. Sweet Fields...

...suffering believer, is the substance of the famous hymn "A Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy" (LXVI): 1 There is a Land of pure Delight Where Saints Immortal...Day excludes the Night, And Pleasures banish Pain. 2 There everlasting Spring abides, And never- withering Flowers: Death like a narrow Sea divides This...

...Lathrop 266 . THERE IS A LAND There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Eternal day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain; There everlasting Spring abides , And never -whith'ring flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields...

...dan roll'd_beSo, to the Jews old Ca- naan_ stood ,While_ Jor- dan roll'd_ between . tween. tween. 2. There everlasting spring abides, And never-with'ring...narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shiv'ring on the brink,...

...saying, 'A man is dead'; but angels throng about him, saying, 'A man is born." Henry Ward Beecher ' There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain." FACE TO FACE "Oh, sometimes my faith sees Jesus coming o'er the stormy sea. And the waves are stilled,...

...earthly existence drags on, and I yearn to join my loved ones who have preceded me into that glory." There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.2 The pain alluded to here is often that which comes from being "left behind" when loved ones...

...evermore My dwelling-place shall be. Scottish Psalter 1 650 For a further version of Psalm 23 see 77 460 There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This...